You are right and it is true about when people write letters back and forth to each other and you can’t see their facial expressions or talk to them face to face. As much time as I’ve spent in jail, I’d get letters from mom, dad or Debbie and sometimes they’d leave out whole sentences or misspell words (especially dad) and I’d have to decipher the letter first. I spent most of my time writing back asking them, “what did you mean by this or by that?” At the time I didn’t know anything about reading Hebrew or Greek but their letters sure did give me an idea. So, you don’t have to be concerned or wonder how I take what you say in your letters because I know how letters are. But also keep in mind that everything I write, I try to write out of love. I’ll reread my letters before I send them and sometimes I’ll come across something and I’ll think to myself, “Man, I better change that, they might take it the wrong way.” I don’t want to sound offensive or argumentative in anyway. I only hope you can put up with me until I die. And by the way, when you’re at my funeral and you see my kids crying I want you to walk up to them and tell them that death is like a peanut: The shell is there but the nut is gone! What I meant about (when you get saved) I was just being funny. I meant that it was inevitable. Unavoidable. And that what I wrote (when you get saved) was no typing error. I couldn’t find the word, typo, in the dictionary when I wrote your letter. But what I meant was that I didn’t type the wrong keys. As for doing a full system restore I was trying to be impressive by using computer lingo to warn you that if you got saved or ever wanted to get saved, you’d have to start from scratch because all the influence from the world, secular books, people, even preachers and the church that we’ve been exposed to while growing up concerning God and his ways are wrong. [ Bill, I’d like to stop here for a minute and tell you, that I love you and I don’t want you to ever think that I’m trying to get you saved, because I am! I just want to tell you my feelings for a minute and then I’ll let you get back to your letter. I know now, what it means to witness to people and what (real) Christians go through. It’s kinda messed up though. Here’s what happens. You get saved, saved from the blindness that satan has the power to put on you. God opens your eyes and comes into your life. It’s like reality is magnified and heaven and hell and everything in between becomes more real than ever and you want to warn everyone and tell everyone especially your loved ones until either they get saved or they shoot you (just kidding). It’s like the best kept secret of all time and you pray, waiting for God to rescue your loved one like He rescued you (me). Anyway, I just wanted to stop and say that! Sorry for interrupting your letter. Please proceed.] satan is a literal being who does have the power to influence people and the capabilities to blind people and mislead them from the truth. He has an influence in the writing of books, movies, art, music, etc. That’s why we have so many religions, denominations and so many translations. These are the works of the devil. Almost the whole world is under the influence of satan. Anything that is not inspired by the Holy Spirit (concerning God) is a lie or a lie sprinkled with a little bit of truth to keep from chasing a person away. Everything has been contaminated. And like satan God also influence’s people. (you are right)The Catholics did compile the Holy Bible but God was behind the scenes making the decisions. It was God who didn’t want the gospel of Judas, the gospel of Enoch, and so on in his book. Both God and satan influence people in the world. God inspired, “Amazing Grace” and satan, “Back in Black.” It was God who inspired the “ Left Behind Series” and satan who inspired, “Harry Potter.” It was God who influenced the movie, “The Passion of Christ” and it was satan who retaliated with, “The Devinci Codes.” I know that everyone has their own beliefs. I use to have my own beliefs. As a matter of fact, (I know you already know this but it sounded kinda tuff so I stuck it in this letter) a belief is a conscious, organized, pre-established, perception of things by which all other information is judged. What you’re reading in this letter is not my beliefs or what I think could be going on or what might be happening in life. This is the truth revealed by the Holy Spirit through the word of God. When I first got saved I didn’t feel anything. I was so let down, it was pathetic. I got mad at God and said, “this can’t be all there is!” Please believe me, everything that I’ve learned, I learned from the Holy Spirit. Not no Church, not no preacher and definitely not from the world. It sucked when I got saved. I wanted to go buy a 12 pack and head back to Ohio because I wanted the heavens to open, I wanted to see a bright white light but it was nothing, it was zilch. I didn’t have my vision until about 3 or 4 months later. Other things and miracles were happening that made me want more and more until I had the vision. When God started revealing himself and I started seeing that he was real I started getting scared. It humbled me bigtime. But the more I studied and read and prayed the more God revealed himself as a harmless and loving but powerful individual. I can tell you right now if you prayed that prayer and meant it from your heart you are saved. Everybody feeds and exercises their minds with knowledge and schools (education) to grow in wisdom. And everybody feeds and exercises their bodies with weights and diets to grow in health. And if you would feed and exercise your spirit with the Word of God and with prayer, as you grow he will reveal himself and come into your life, I more than promise you! What you’re about to read is one of the topics that I was talking about that you might have to start from scratch because most people believe that you have to be good to approach God). Those commandments that you were talking about that are in the Bible, you’re right, there is more than ten. There are 250 in the New Covenant alone and almost a thousand in the Old Covenant. The Ten Commandments which lit. in Hebrew means Ten Words is a technical term for (covenant) stipulations. All these commandments combined together were not for the Catholics or us or the world but for Israel, the Jews only. And also, God didn’t put his laws in the Bible for us or the Jews to try to keep. His laws are spiritual and we are carnal so it is impossible for us to keep them (Rom. 7:14). If a person sinned just one “little” sin a day from the age of five until he was sixty-five that would be 21,915 sins. One of the main reasons God put his commandments in the Bible was to express the purity of his holy character and to tell us what we’d have to be like if we were going to try approach him by being good or sinless. And no man could keep that many commandments every day of his life and not break one. And I know what commandments that you were talking about. There in Leviticus. One of those commandments was if you catch a person having sex with an animal, stone them until they’re dead. But anyway, under the Old Covenant of Law or Works, the Jews tried like crazy to keep all those commandments to please God but it was impossible. So once a year they had to sacrifice a perfect lamb without spot or blemish to cover their sins. Now under the New Covenant of Grace, which the Jews rejected, God presents to the world forgiveness to anyone who will believe that Jesus is his perfect Lamb without spot or blemish. God says in his word …no person will be justified (made righteous, acquitted and judged acceptable) in his sight by observing the works (trying to be good) prescribed by the law. For (the real function of) the law or commandments is (just) to make men recognize and be conscious of sin. The righteousness of God ( which he gives you) has been revealed independently and altogether apart from the law or commands. [All] are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy) through the redemption which is [provided] in Jesus (the Lamb of God). Romans 3: 20-24. That prayer that you prayed a couple of times and said didn’t work. I know you probably won’t believe me but it really did work. Just like there is a law of gravity, a law of physics and laws of thermodyamics. There is also the law of God, the law of sin and death, the law of the Spirit of life and the law of faith. Just like I said on page 6 of the other letter as you feed upon the Word, God will start opening your eyes to his presence and to the truth. It might not happen over night, but it could! God has feelings like we do. He is sensitive to what we say about him or his word. He can easily be grieved and pushed away. He will not force himself on no one. When you prayed that prayer you basically stepped out in faith. Faith is just taking God at his word and that touches him more than anything. But when you said, “when something doesn’t work, it just doesn’t work,” that grieves God and pushes him away (you're basically calling God a lier). Because when God says you have no past, in his eyes, just like an innocent baby has no past, you also don't have a past. You’re born again. You are acquitted, declared righteous and given a right standing with God. You are in a state of God’s favor. Don’t go by your feelings or your five senses just take God at his word. Both God and satan are reading these letters, they’re observing what we’re saying to each other. I hope you don’t think I’ve lost my mind or that I’m going crazy, man having a relationship with God is so awesome but satan will fight you all the way. He’ll put thoughts of doubt in your mind. If you think that all of this is nonsense. If you don’t trust God. If you don’t believe his Word. Then please have faith in me, trust me, believe me and let that faith you have in me carry you until God reveals himself. Get into the concordance of the KJV or the NKJV and find something that you’d be interested in, maybe, God’s personality or Bible prophecy . A lot of people have come to believe the Bible is of God just by prophecy alone. 25% of the Bible is made up of events predicted before they happen. I know people like Jeane Dixon and Nostrodomus have made predictions but God is flawless. Everybody thinks that America is so young but Israel is only 59 yrs. old. God destroyed Israel way back in 70 A.D. Israel bacame a nation in 1948. The Israel you see on T.V. today didn’t exist it was a wasteland. There was no life, it was barren. All the surrounding countries, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, etc. didn’t want the land it was ruined. Now the Palestinians are whining and crying saying the Jews stole their land and they want it back. God destroyed Israel and scattered the Jews all over the world because they killed every prophet that He sent, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, etc. and then they killed His Son. But before God destroyed Israel He promised them that in the last days He’d gather them back and make them a great nation again and prosper them and the land with every green thing. God kept His Word. Israel is flourishing. I don’t know if you know it or not but their air force is under ground. The ground opens up and U.S. made fighters fly in and out. There are a lot of prophecies that are taking place right now but one I want to tell you about before it happens that you and me will see in our lifetime is the capital city of Syria (Damascus) will cease to exist. God said that after Israel became a nation again, Damascus, which is one of Israels greatest enemies, will become a heap of ruins.[ …Damascus will no longer be a city…in the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! Is.17:1-14; Jer.49:23-27; Am.1:3-5] And (right now) all the countries that are supposed to become a coilition force in the last days and attack Israel are all gathered and working together (Ezek.38&39). A lot of nations are getting angry with America because of our foreign policies, our protecting Israel, the spreading of our culture and so on and so on. After China sent a missile into outer space and with pin point accuracy blew up one of their aging satellites the size of a 4 by 4, they sent some messages to the Whitehouse about our protecting of Taiwan which they claim belongs to them. The orbit of that satellite was way above our military satellites that we need for our military operations (and that concerns the Pentagon bigtime). And there are intelligence reports that both Russia and China are working with Iran in developing an electro-magnetic bomb with America’s name on it. Not to long ago America observed, with in a 2 month period, that Iran launched 3 missiles which appeared to have been complete failures because they all exploded. They figured they were trying to perfect missiles for the nukes that Russia is helping them develop. But after the intelligence reports about an electro-magnetic bomb, America went back and studied the 3 launches and noticed that the 3 explosions or remote detonations were precisely the altitude in the atmosphere that would be needed for an electro-magnetic bomb to work. And besides all that, it’s only a matter time before a terrorist gets his hands on a nuclear device. Just a little while ago a Russian scientist got nailed in Britain, I think, selling plutonium 239 to who he thought was an Islamist extremist. The authorities said it was enough to make a small nuke and that the scientist claimed he had more or could get more. Well I better not make this letter a book. I’ll end this letter by what I mentioned on the page before this one. If you would study prophecy or some other subject you would be getting in the Word and getting the Word in you and as you pray and talk to God he will, he really will reveal himself to you. One way to speed up the process of having a relationship with God is conversating with him. He listens, he really does. Practice prayer. Pray for mom, pray for Armeda, pray that I’ll shut up (just kidding), pray for Zack and Josh, ask God to protect them from the freaks of the world and to bless them super exceedingly abundantly above all you can think or ask. Oh yeah, I don’t know if you heard that Tommy’s supposed to go to prison for a long time. Tommy was needen a fix real bad and caved in Mr. so-n-so’s head with a cresent wrench, stole his wallet and left him to die (he didn’t die). The old man that lives across the street from Mr. and Mrs. Stephens house. Tommy told police that he threw the wallet in Mcdonalds’ dumpster. Someone else told police that Tommy planned it (premeditated). Tommy let the air out of one of his (Tommys) bike tires to lure Mr. so-n-so out of the house away from his wife to the backyard to his shed where the air compressor was. Danny Sherell was driving by later and said, “oh look, old man so-n-so dyed his hair red” and Aleah said, “Dad that’s blood.” What’s really messed up is Tommy lured Tubby out to his compressor first and for some reason changed his mind and went down the street around the corner to so-n-so’s house next.
Well, like the kids would say, gotta jet !